Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun quakers

1 sense of quakers

Sense 1
Religious Society of Friends, Society of Friends, Quakers -- (a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers)
       => sect, religious sect, religious order -- (a subdivision of a larger religious group)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun quaker

2 senses of quaker

Sense 1
Friend, Quaker -- (a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers))
       => Christian -- (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)

Sense 2
quaker, trembler -- (one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear)
       => coward -- (a person who shows fear or timidity)